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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: CapnJack on December 25, 2016, 06:19:06 PM

Title: RIP Rick Parfitt, 68
Post by: CapnJack on December 25, 2016, 06:19:06 PM

Status Quo guitarist:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rick-parfitt-status-quo-guitarist-dead-at-68-w457741

Title: Re: RIP Rick Parfitt, 68
Post by: urth on December 26, 2016, 11:57:13 AM

Wow -- Parfitt and George Michael within 24 hours of one another. Quo was just a footnote here in the US, but in the UK they have a pretty sizable following, so I imagine this went down pretty hard over there.

I saw them once, at the Fillmore. A good friend was house manager there at the time, and he introduced them to the audience, pronouncing their name as any American might, "Stat-us Quo."  Shortly after he got a dressing down from the band's road manager, who insisted (correctly) "They're called STAY-tus Quo, you git!"

Bloody Americans.

(IIRC, a couple of members of Metallica were in the house that night.)